In this article, I will show you how I grew my blog from 0 to 80000 views per month with no paid tools used.
Views in 2018 November
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Awesome job at getting to 80k but to be honest your metrics looked better last year. A lot more of time per user and much less bounce rate. Regardless, my blog is still very far from reaching your numbers so great job!
those metrics are what you usually get when your traffic is mostly driven by Google - people search for the solution, land on your blog and go away. My blog has similar stats. I don't think you can do much about it.
I guess you have a point. Unless you provide some kind of multi-page course it's hard to make the user spend a lot of time and visit multiple pages.
Hey Alberto, don't think more about bounce rates in technical blogs, because people visiting your blog have a different kind of knowledge levels.
If they already have the knowledge they can understand by reading the code.
scotch.io bounce rate is 83.74% and session duration is 1minute 11 seconds in the year 2018
You can find more about here Scotch.io 2018 Year in Review
Yeah, you are right tim sometimes google just show the solution in the form a featured snippet.
Thank you Alberto.
Thanks, I have been hearing about
GatsbyJs, Have some questions. IsGatsbyJsfree for commercial and personal use ? IsJavascriptknowledge enough or we should learnReactto useGatsbyJs? Any tutorial to create blog usingGatsbyJs?Great job! It seems we're on pair. I also started blogging in November of 2018 and have similar results (last month ~91K sessions). As for the bounce rate and session duration - I think it's mainly due to the traffic coming from Google Discovery. When a post gets there, many people click but don't necessarily stay long. I'm currently looking for ways to improve that on my blog. Anyway, keep up the good work!
Most Ad-blockers block the google analytics tracking on the sites, I think we are getting more views than the data showing in google analytics.
These days people have less attention span, they just find the solution and move away.
So true. What's more, I've even tried other, more privacy-friendly analytics tools (namely Matomo and GhostBoard) and they both give slightly different results than GA - even when considering session duration.
I have tested once by adding Anti-AdBlock to my blog, it improves bounce rate and session duration.
This is really impressive! Kudos to you for sharing your techniques freely. You could almost consider making a small paid course about this sort of thing 🤔
This.
Thank you Emma, I will plan a paid course in future if most people are interested.
well done with your blog.
and thanx for sharing your experience. ( I find the Google Trends tip for blog posts inspiration very very interesting and useful!)
Thanks Davide.
Any tips on getting traction while at the same time avoiding "social" media - I don't like the superficiality and toxicity of Reddit for example
You can try cross-posting your blog posts in dev.to , medium, dzone, and hashnode, etc.
Try to create a new twitter handler related to your blog and post some daily tips like last month I created a @codeexampless twitter handler and started posting simple code snippets it works for me.
One question, are you still on the free plan on Netlify? Or was your traffic too much for it?
This is really nice. Thanks for sharing.
Great stuff! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Shannon.
Thanks for sharing your insight.
Thank you truetechcode
Do you earn anything from your blog? I assume you lose a little on hosting the website.
Great work! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you vaibhav
I have the response for title question. You can write post about "how to start a personal blog" (:. But seriously, wow, great job
Thank you milosz.
Nice job!
What the ratio of traffic comes from Google search?
92.50% from Google
Direct 3%
Remaining traffic from Bing, Yahoo, Yandex , YouTube, Facebook etc.
Hey do you wanna collaborate ?